Teen High Interest Titles


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Book cover for "Love, Stargirl"
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5 stars
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Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
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Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
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"This romance, set amongst Mina's first summer job, explores new love, body image and the frustrations of working in retail. Centering around first love, cultural expectations, and class, Luscious love is the story of a girl realizing she needs to accept the love she deserves, and take the leap of faith before it's too late. Committed to amplifying female voices Author Katerina Bakolias highlights the traps we fall into when we have low self-worth....
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In 1943 ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she's moved and set to making bombs she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.
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Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.

166. MARTians

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In a near-future consumer dystopia, Zoë Zindleman must choose from limited, bleak housing options, including a converted strip-mall refuge that offers safety and proximity to her new place of work, ALLMART.
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Bluford series volume 2.
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When Darcy Wills starts hanging out with "the zeros," a group of students at Bluford High, Brisana Meeks, Darcy's grade school friend, quickly becomes her rival and not only taunts Darcy daily but tries to steal her boyfriend.

168. Me (Moth)

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"Moth has lost her family in an accident. Though she lives with her aunt, she feels alone and uprooted--until she meets Sani, a boy who is also searching for his roots. If he knows more about where he comes from, maybe he'll be able to understand his ongoing depression. And if Moth can help him feel grounded, then perhaps she too will discover the history she carries in her bones"--
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Sent to stay with her aunt to escape difficulties at home, fifteen-year-old Frances meets the otherworldly Peter, a messenger who brings unwelcome news and believes that Frances is also a messenger. Fifteen-year-old Frances is sent to her aunt's house for the summer to escape difficulties at home. Soon she meets Peter, a man unlike anyone she has ever known. Peter is a messenger--but his messages never bring good news. Peter believes that Frances...
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Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion of being half-Mexican and half-white while spending a summer with his cousin and new friends on the baseball fields and back alleys of San Diego County, California.
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Mind Reader. In a flash, Lucas's world is turned upside down. After a mysterious sighting, he soon discovers he can read the thoughts of others. Is this a dream come true? Or could it be his worst nightmare?
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5 stars
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Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.
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4 stars
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After Ciela and Lock are sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through her family's possibly-magical pastelería and his secret forest of otherworldly trees.

174. Monster

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4 stars
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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It's no secret Anna's parents are going through a rough patch. But when that rough patch turns positively volatile, Anna starts to wonder why her parents are staying together at all. Will their anger destroy everything Anna has ever known? Can Anna allow herself to fall in love when she sees how it can turn so easily to hate?
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"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, an unlikely duo try to solve the murder of an international jewel thief."-- Helping his mother run the family hotel doesn’t usually offer much excitement. The only other people around are Penny Price, a spoiled child actor and star of the hit TV series Little Miss Murder being shot in town, and Mr. Ignato, an elderly resident at the hotel. When Mr. Ignato dies from a fall down the stairs,...
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When coder extraordinaire Ashley's well-defined college prep plans veer off course, she decides to have fun during spring break and, for the first time, follow her heart.
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"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Jen learns that her mom has been keeping a secret: Jen has a biological father who isn't the dad she grew up with. Now this secret threatens to tear their family apart."--
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No Name volume 5.
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Name Your Mountain continues the exciting No Name series as the high-school team matures and faces new challenges. When the all American Indian high-school basketball team in Trust Your Name enters a national-level tournament, the team travels to big cities and has new experiences, but all is not well. Choctaw Bobby Byington and his new Creek friend, Eddie, are torn between struggles on the court and painful episodes back home. With the door of adulthood...
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After Nate Haregraves finds out that his ex-boyfriend will be at his cousin's lavish destination wedding in South Africa, his best friend and secret crush Jai Patel--who hopes to convince spotlight-shy Nate to front his band at a music contest--volunteers to be his plus-one.